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You Snooze You Win – The Best Time To Wake Up
DOES AN EARLY MORNING START HELP YOU SEIZE THE DAY? I’m naturally an early riser believing that the early start helps me to ease into my morning routines and rituals (meditation, visualisation, classic FM and plenty of caffeine) and be able to seize the day. Since its...
The Secret to Increasing Your Emotional Control
At the heart of mental toughness lies your emotional control – the ability to manage your emotions and in so doing preventing them from negatively affecting your performance and wellbeing. If you can’t keep your emotions in check you then you become distracted and...
Champion Tennis Player Gives Mental Toughness The Finger
STAN WAWRINKA ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A MENTAL TOUGHNESS RITUAL Roger Federer illustrated the importance of mental toughness in tennis when winning the recent Australian Open. He won the Indian Wells tournament at the weekend too, beating another champion opponent, Stan...
5 Quick Ways To Banish Those Negative Thoughts
One of the key traits of mentally tough people is that they adopt a positive mindset, which enables them to tackle life’s challenges with optimism and confidence. In a typical day we have about 50,000 thoughts and feelings, of which 70% are negative. This inbuilt...
5 Quick Tips On Being More Productive
I love reading articles on being more productive so that I can become more productive myself and also to find practical tips I can pass on. Here are five courtesy of Stepahnie Vozza at Fast Company, my all time favourite business journal since the beginning of time....
Do You Have An Action Addiction?
Slow Down To Speed Up – Learn From The Cheetah On How To Have A More Productive Day I had one of those days last week when I was frantically busy all day through calls, emails and meetings but at the end of the day I hadn’t achieved anything major on my ‘to do’ list....